Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-11
NOVEMBER II, 1887.
o.. cans, a Righteous one.

Our Cause Righteous one.
The Pasadena Star has this to say;
Joseph D. Lynch has departed for
Washington where he hopes to arrive
in time to be allowed to occupy the
Congressional seat the voters OF this
district allotted to General Vandever
He NAV get Vandever's place. 1t de-
pends~entirely upon what a Demo-
cratic House may do. If that body
concludes the country wants Lynch's
vote he will be seated, otherwise they
will allow yandever to retain it.
We do not refer to this for the pur-
pose of discussing the case itself be-
fore the public. But we do most en-
phatic ally deny that any one in in
terest desires to win, excepting in so
far as the cause may be just. We do
not think General Vandeyer or any
other candidate for office should be
allow ed to hold an office to which
he seems to be elected, because
of the disfranchisement of nearly two
hundred Democratic voters by the
arbitrary, illegal and unjust action OF
another official.
But to return, to what was in our
mind: 1t is most gratuitous piece OF
hypocrisy and pharisaism on the
part of the Star to pretend that it
thiaks for moment contestant
coul be seated on such grounds as
are alleged in the paragraph quoted
above. The editor OF the Siar, If he
knows anything, knows that the voters
of the United States are very nearly
equally divided in almost all sections OF
theUnion. He must know that the DEM
ocratic members OF the Lower House
of the National Congress, are as hon
est, as honorable, as high-minded, as
fair as their colleagues on the opposite
side of the hall where they assemble.
While. we know that in post bellum
days, when party spirit ran at white
heat, the party whose principles the
Star processes did some very queer
thin gs in the way of unseating Dem
ocrats in the House Of Representa-
tives, yet we have always charged
such unfair acts to the bitterness OF
party feeling engendered by long,
costly and internecine war. We do
believe that for the most part this bit
terness has been sweetened by better
patriotism, and that this hot hate has
been cooled by the lapse OF years.
We do not believe that the average
Republican member OF the House OF
Representatives to-day would allow
himself to be guided by party feeling
or party interest in deciding so grave
a case as this. Nor do We believe the
Star will find any great ready acqui-
escence in its own party tothat narrow
view that half the legislators OF this
great Nation will lend themselves to
80 base an act as that paper outlines.
1t is quite true that present appear
ances indicate a strong possibility OF
the next Presidential election going
into the House. The closeness of the
vote in many States, the presence of
Prohibition and Labor in the field,
with independent organizations, the
prob ability Of an American ticket,
and the endless combinations made
possible by all these factions point to
this as thing far from impossible.
1t is also true that with Indiana and
California voting with the Republi-
cans their party has a majority in the
House. Once more it is true that the
reconstruction of these two States by
giving two contestan s in California and
one in Indiana their seats, this
majority in the House of Representa-
tives would be transferred to
the Democratic side. Yet we
believe the House will seat the con-
testants not with an eye on the Presi-
dency, but with an eye single to
Justice, The other cases we do not
feel familiar enough with to risk an
opinion. But the case in the Sixth
District we know to be righteous one.